The Sinai desert is a hub for people trafficking. Many of the refugees from sub-Saharan Africa who get smuggled through here get tortured and blackmailed in the process.

Bedouin gangs – instead of trafficking the refugees straight into Israel - often hold them captive, torture them and force relatives into paying ransoms for their release.

The ordeal is exceptionally bad for women. Many of them are raped by the traffickers and some become pregnant.

I met Tegisti Tekla from Eritrea in a shelter of the African Refugee Development Center in Tel Aviv. She eventually made it to Israel after a long and treacherous journey via Sudan and the Sinai.

Tegisti was raped by people traffickers several times during the trip. She told me she wanted to talk about her suffering to help prevent others from going through the same.

"They are cruel people," she said as tears ran down her cheeks. "They are criminal people and they don't have the human sense like us. I screamed that I am virgin but they just don't care at all about you."

Tegisti says the first time she was raped the people traffickers selected her and another female refugee from a larger group and took them away saying they would have to make coffee for the smugglers. There would be several similar incidents during her treacherous trek across the Sinai.

When Tegisti finally made it to Israel she found out she was pregnant and decided to have an abortion.

"I would suffer all my life," she said. "I would have a son or a daughter without a father. That's why I decided not to have the baby."

The African Refugee Development Center, an aid group that provides food and shelter, says many women who make it to Israel are pregnant from rape and many ask for an abortion. Only a very few have the babies who were fathered by people traffickers.

Diddy Mymin Kahn, an aid worker at ARDC, says the aftermath is like being violated again for victims who are often stigmatized by their communities instead of receiving the help they require.

"Women say they will not get any support from their community if they are victims of rape so they will keep completely silent about it so that they are not ostracized. Even more so if they are pregnant," Mymin Kahn told CNN.

Meron Estefanos, an Eritrean-born Swedish activist and journalist who works out of Stockholm, is often in contact with women who were held by people traffickers in torture camps.

She says she frequently hears stories of rape and other sexual abuse.

"In some cases babies are even born in the torture camps," Meron told me. "Then the people smugglers sometimes tell the women that they have to pay double the ransom because there are two people now."

A tragic case was brought to our attention by the New Generation Foundation for Human Rights, an aid organization operating out of the town of El Arish in Northern Sinai that tries to help the African refugees stranded there.

The group provided us with horrific pictures of a baby girl named Cecilia, who they say was born inside a Bedouin torture camp after her mother had been raped there countless times.

The organization says that when the mother was unable to pay the ransom demanded, the smuggler who had fathered the child burned the baby's head all the way down to the skull bone. After the mother was released, Cecilia was finally treated at a hospital in Cairo.

While some Bedouins are trying to crack down on the people smugglers in their ranks, the business remains lucrative, with ransoms sometimes topping $60,000 to get a refugee freed.

It is not clear how many women have become pregnant after being raped in Bedouin people trafficking camps, but aid groups say they believe those that come forward and talk are by far the minority and most simply try to have an abortion in secret.

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TheGreenMan

"She shares her ordeal to prevent others from enduring the same ". Really ? Is that a credibale statement? as the women in her primitive third world community are highly unlikely to have access to the internet , nor read English, let alone tune into CNN. Her real agenda is to set herself up as a 'victim' of her own crime as a willing illegal immigigrant seeking to leech benefits off other country's taxpayers. By portraying herself as a 'rape victim' she is seeking to get fast tracked into the USA or UK to live off benefits. In recent times the accuser of 'DSK' also falsely alleged rape to creeop into the USA to commit othe crimes in addition to false witness lying and illegal immigration. Throw that woman back to her own country to make it a 'bette place', my country is already full.

thank you Zyx, you couldn't have said it better, the Greenmoron has just shown how ignorant he is. people like him need to be thrown on an isolated island with others like his kind and see how tough he is. "my country is already full'- such an uneducated statement.

September 21, 2012 at 3:13 am |

Ralph M

Did you ever think that if the leaders of the country she comes from did more but stealing any and all resources to sell for their selves, that the place might be worth living in? No...blame the west- especially America. That is what pathetic whining uneducated fools do. Sorry I had to point that out to you. But you are.

September 21, 2012 at 8:45 am |

someone

No-no-no... It's ruthless laziness and corruption that are guilty of the misfortune of those lazy and corrupt even if they make up a country... Where will you run to, when there are no more white people left on this planet?🙂

September 21, 2012 at 11:24 am |

doubledees

hummmmmmmmmmmmmm sounds like your a foreigner............ typical American hater

September 21, 2012 at 11:27 am |

Sabrina Desiree J

This is exactly what happens in Arizona when the current 'coyotes' (aka 'mexican cartel' aka 'la familia') bring illegal aliens into the USA through the 'funnel' created by the two fences along the border (California and Texas) ... right into Arizona. Then the cartel holds many of these illegals hostage in slummy houses while the cartel attempts to get money out of the illegals families back in their home countries (mexico etc)... AND usually uses the illegals to carry drugs into the USA. That is why the Governor of AZ got the SB1070 bill and it is FINALLY passed and in effect now. There is truth in what the woman spotlighted in this 'article' but there is also truth in what YOU say... illegals should stay in their own countries and make the best of life there. But they don't want to work that hard, they want to overrun and suck up the social benefits the first world countries have for THEIR citizenry. I don't have any sympathy for these illegals... you go breaking the laws, you encounter the sharks who feed off lawbreakers. It's a given. Praise GOD for Gov. Jan Brewer of AZ.

September 21, 2012 at 9:50 pm |

star822

@Sabrina Desiree J – "Praise God?" The "God" I serve states throughout the Word that we are suppose to help and not mistreat the alien or foreigners. e.g. Exodus 22: 21 " Do not mistreat an alien..." Leviticus 24:22 "...are to have the same law for the alien..." Psalms 146:9 "the Lord watches over the alien..." We have forgotten history and for that matter God's love for ALL mankind. I can't imagine living in a hostile, no chance for prosperity society and then if/when I try to escape, I'm tortured. I pray you NEVER have to endure any of what these people have had to deal with. And by the way, I'm part Native American and I don't hate those who left their European countries to escape religious persecution for a better world.

September 23, 2012 at 12:31 pm |

LetsStopTheLies

Bravo Zyx, Bravo! Very Well said. I am guessing, "TheGreenMan" is a typical American Christian, who hasnt looked back yet at his own family history. He will be suprised to find he came from one of the very lands he condemns today. His observations though correct in the first half of his comment, but person would reject giving shelter to such helpless women....only a true filthy one! Its people like this Guy, who brings shame to humanity. Pick ANY religion in the world and they will teach you kindness towards the helpless. He should be glad he/his family has not met with anything like this. Then he will truly realize. This is the filth that this countrymen harbor and then take it out on others in various forms! Truly disgusting.

September 23, 2012 at 12:41 pm |

lori

I couldn't of said it better myself, the problem with people like "the green man" is that thier bellies are full and they have all the material junk they want, they can't see the human side of life and that others are suffering. Unfortunately, the world is full of people like this (green man), people like this are selfish and a waste to society. They seem to forget that this stuff can happen to anyone, (green man) is not special. (green man) is just another mouth to feed and is part of the problem and not the solutiions in our mixed up world.

September 27, 2012 at 7:51 pm |

china cat

greenman, if you are an Israeli, and I assume you are, I'm ashamed to be your fellow countryman. If you or your ancestors have immigrated to Israel, you, at least, do not appreciate the hospitality you have received, enough to grant it to others. or at the very least, sympathize with those who need it. you do not deserve the security you have.

Why assume that "Greenman" is an Israeli when he talks about refugees trying to get into the UK and USA? On the other hand, I imagine that tens (if not hundreds) of millions of Africans would rather live in ("fascist" "military dictatorship" "Nazi" and all the other terms I usually see in crazy talk-backs) Israel than in their native homelands or in the Muslim countries they would have to pass through on the way to Israel. (Why doesn't anyone expect Egypt to help these people?) Israel can help a limited number of Africans fleeing oppression, but it is a tiny country already suffering from dangerous ethnic tensions. It is simply not equipped to solve all of Africa's problems.

September 21, 2012 at 5:58 am |

Bibi

Berel Dov Lerner,
You seem to forget that many Africans (particularly East Africans) who migrate to Israel are Jews and so like European Jews are migrating to live in a Jewish homeland and not simply seeking some random haven.

September 21, 2012 at 7:47 am |

Berel Dov Lerner

Bibi:
The article isn't about Ethiopian Jews. Ethiopian Jews don't have to make deals with Bedouin to sneak into Israel. It is, however, worth mentioning that by taking active steps to bring the Ethiopian Jews to Israel, Israel has become the first country in the western world to actively promote immigration from Africa.

September 22, 2012 at 1:13 pm |

aztony

Disgusting comment! And while you're at it, learn to spell, or at the very least use spell check. At least then you might come across as quasi literate.

Really. when I saw that girl in that video and the other people being exploited a felt very sorry for them.
well interesting. You talk of people coming to your country for benefit. you seen to like and probably enjoy benefits. I bet you are not working. Next time be a human being. think before you speak

Maybe YOUR country should throw all lazy bums like yourself out because you spend too much time commenting on news sites without actually working for good in the community or knowing what you're talking about. I actually live in Israel & see these immigrants come with scars from the disgusting acts of the Bedouins & guess what? I help them & am proud of many others in Israel who do the same....Get a life & educate yourself, please! I'm sure when you're in need, you'll be happy for those who actually care...

Your country???
Which country are you refering to? The one you took from others as the slave-trading rapists do? The one which dropps chemical weapons on civilians? The one which had to committ genocide to even exist? The one which consistantly ridicules international law?etc etc etc

It's easy to pray on the weak and vulnerable..Try come here and do that little duppy.

The one which dropps chemical weapons on civilians?
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YOU TALKING ABOUT SYRIA?

September 21, 2012 at 8:31 am |

temporae

USA is well known for using chemical weapons against civilians or have you already forgotten agent orange?

September 21, 2012 at 8:38 pm |

truthhurts

first of all those rapist trafficers are ARABS the same ones throughout the middle east and north africa the same ones as in the west bank and gaza because thats whats kind of loser society your nazi ARABS have created for 13 centuries

second. why hare these African refugees coming to one of the tinniest countries in between african and middle east????????????????????????? BECAUSE REFER TO FIRST POINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

iSRAEL IS THE MOST TOLERANT DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY IN THE MIDDLE EAST SO TAKE YOUR LIES SOMEWHERE ELSE

September 21, 2012 at 8:56 pm |

cobrazax

i think u ment "the only true democracy in the middle east"

September 22, 2012 at 9:17 pm |

Brad

True, USA has commited atrocities, and as an American, I hate that. However, every country in the world has done that, the question is, does said country evolve. In the case of USA, and other like countries, yes, they are evolvoing into better countries. We no longer use those chemical weapons. We also take in more refugees and immigrants then any other country. We donate more then any other country, we provide more jobs to 3rd world countries then any other country. And while the other countries help, it is primarily the USA that keeps the world somewhat safe from the extremist. It's ok to bash the USA for it's mistakes, it should be, cause wrong is wrong, but don't forget all the good the USA does to.

September 23, 2012 at 1:10 pm |

tfbuckfutter

"Also, that baby in the picture up there totally deserved to have it's head set on fire for trying to be an 'anchor baby'"

Kinda harsh....it should never been born to begin with really. Why do these people squirt out kids when they cant even feed their selves? Just shows how uneducated they are. I say sterilize them as they migrate. You know how roaches multiply.

September 21, 2012 at 8:49 am |

bringalltherefugeesyay!

how can you say that about a baby? don't you have any compassion for others? we're talking about a baby in the first place and a woman who was raped, HATER I hope you get raped and your head burned and see how it feels, maybe then you will stop hating.

September 23, 2012 at 12:37 pm |

l091

RalphM did you even read the article? The woman was raped by the Bedouin and had the baby while she was still in captivity. It is the baby's rapist father (the human trafficker) that burned his own daughters head. Don't be so judgmental without even understanding the issue at hand

September 29, 2012 at 2:33 am |

zemen

TheGreenMan...what an English man ..lol...lol.....what de hell is "immigigrant". Find out english grammer courses in your Area and come back for some comments here.

really? do you work hard at all for your daily bread? it's about national interest, not compassion

September 23, 2012 at 12:59 pm |

jeff kelly

While what you say may be true, the real tragedy is right here in America. This type of occurence happens daily along our porus border with Mexico. The claim is that over 90% of the innocent young girls become victims from the "coyotes" and human trafficing thugs almost as soon as they cross the border into America. Where can they go? This is an atrocity that the current administration turns a blind eye to. If you need to substantiate this, go to Bisbee Arizona and talk to the ranchers along the border. Go out into the fields and pick up the scattered bras and panties. It is totally disgusing but as Obama says, "Welcome to America".

So much hate in the world... Isn't it human nature to try to get to a better place? I myself am an American but only because I was born here, doesn't mean I agree with all there policies just that I have to follow there rules. My ancestors all came from somewhere else trying to get away from apprehension or just trying to make a better life, it was there God given right to do so just as it's all of these people's right to do the same. Like MJ said "Heal the world"

GreenMan – what an utterly disgusting comment to make. Clearly you have led a very privilidged life not to know the pain & suffering this woman and countless others have endured. Shame on you a million times over. Easy to hide behind your computer screen and spew forth such hateful speech.

It is we who will decide when and if our country is "too full" just as every other nation on earth decides for itself. also, you need a lesson on american history. the eastern coast of north america was declared for the King of great britain begining with the late 15th century voyages of john cabot, although rights could be contested, in general, the right of claim was upheld under international law. as to the colonists who came to inhabit british north america, they came not as immigrants, but as settlers of British territories. they were subjects of the same sovereign on both sides of the atlantic. colonists who were not subjects of the crown were usually required to take an oath of loyalty to the crown – groups of this type were immigrants. during the revolution, many of the colonists took oaths of loyalty to the patriot cause, those that did not were sometimes dispossesed or fled to other parts of the british empire. those who stayed became americans. those virginians who settled in kentucky, as when they were british subjects, were not immigrants, but settlers of american territory. so, unless you consider someone who moves from chicago to los angeles an immigrant, we must say european america was first settled by settlers and not immigrants. but, immigrants followed later...and everyone was required to take an oath of loyalty to become a citizen.

September 21, 2012 at 11:51 pm |

Wake up

Greenman is just trolling and your all falling victims to his games. People seriously... get smarter. Look at you insulting each other on where you live and your religious differences.

This world will suck until people can learn not to let others dictate their emotions.

Oh good grief... if you had any sense in your skull (which I'm guessing you don't), you'd do the world a favor, as well as third world countries, by not procreating and spreading your ignorant hatred to the rest of the world.

I cannot believe you are able to write publicly what you think. For people like you freedom of speech and writing should be taken away. One day bad karma will haunt you and not one person will be sorry.

unbelievable there are people in this world like you. The woman gets her virginity taken by force becomes pregnant then has to make the hard decision to kill her baby. And you blame her? You are a sick puppy! what is great is GOD will still forgive her sin, however you will be dealt with soon. proverbs chapter 3-7. soon people like you will perish 1by1 2by2 3by3 4by4 and so on until people like yourself vanish from GOD's beautiful earth.

Not that I deny the fact that Israel has stupid, ignorant and heartless people (like any country), obviously this person is not an Israeli and is simply trying to make Israel look bad.. the reason is that, unlike the U.S and the U.K, Israel doesn't give benefits to these immigrants so easily if at all.. most are locked in interim camps in the south and those that get to the big cities work their asses off for a little bit of money..
Someday, I hope soon, Israel will be criticized for its real transgressions by people in the field with first hand knowledge and not demonized by the crazy fantasies of hatred filled minds

I prefer people like her in my country against people "like you". I would not want my country to be full of people "like you"... Unlike you, these people are hopeless and desperate where they were born. They simply need to survive somehow while people "like you" think they have the right to blame them for their misfortune over the internet... Shame on you...

I wonder why this article does not mention the until recently Israeli absorbance and humanitarian care of dozens of thousands of African (many of them Muslims) illigal immigrant who came into Israel through the Sini desert. For them Israel is safe heaven, however, their absorbance is a complex issue, especially when some part of them were found engage in different crimes, including rape of Israeli wemen.

That is one of the cruelest, most inhumane responses I've ever encountered, to a situation of horrible human suffering. It is hard to believe this person is serious, but I'm afraid it's probably true. One begins to see again why certain religions envision hells for such people as TheGreenMan–although I would not truly wish that for anyone.

what a racist piece of garbage. get out of your moma's basement, the world has advanced, and they have computers and cellphones everywhere. in fact smart phones are used more in Africa for everything then in America.

How do you know this woman came voluntary? Most eritrean woman getting kidnapped from Sudan by arab bedouins called Rashayda. THose Rashayda-bedouins re-sell them to Arab Bedouins in Sinai/Egypt... THen those buyers abuse them to extort the ransom between 25k – 60k USD!
Not all arabs nor bedouins are traders in human beeings. BUT SEVERAL!!!!
99% of the victims are eritrean – christians (orthodox).. They have been christians hundreds of many years before it had entered EUROPE..

They target mainly eritreans because many eritreans have relatives in western countries who are HARD-WORKING... So those gangsters if they dont get their profit they will sell their organs.

Someone mentioned they have to be sterilized!?? Those woman got raped and had no way of abortion.. Just as many white people did with black woman those days of slavery..

Your ignorance + dumbness is too amazing...
You have no clue about anything about the world, i bet you have not even been ever outside the US nor read books. According to your primitive statements you dont got any clue about the world. If the US+Western Countries would change their world policies in regards to "FAIRNESS in WORLD-POLICY"... trust me at least 95% of all africans would stay and die in their homeland.

I can't believe that you just said that! You sound very cold hearted...where is your compassion for others? This poor woman was raped...not once but many times. Not only does she have to deal with the trauma of being rape she has to deal with the abortion of the innocent child from that rape. If all the people in the world were like you then how pathetic would we all be? Until you come off your high horse you will continue to miss so much in life and I feel very sorry for you. By the way, not everyone wants to move to the US so you are jumping to an incorrect solution!

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WOW! A BONA FIDE MIND READER? This bigoted troll knows with absolute certainty that "Her real agenda is to set herself up as a 'victim'" simply by reading the article! That is impressive thinking – 'get gang-raped, suffer torture and extreme depredation so you can get those big fat welfare checks every month'. WHAT A GENIUS TO THINK THIS WAY! I wonder how he treats the women in his life – imagine being greenman's Daughter!?! Wife!?!

Gee, shall we jump to ridiculous, narrow-minded conclusions about this commentator!?! Where to start...

'Know-it-alls' like this always have The Answer in which they project their own twisted, narrow-minded thinking onto Human Beings who have actually suffered and actually experienced Real Life, instead of merely pontificating about it from Couch-Potato / Armchair Warrior isolation.

1) Get a real life; and 2) Grow up; and 3) Most of all, SPEAK FOR YOURSELF! You are an embarrassment...
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Instead of feelin disgust at your soulless comment, I'll just tell you that I'm sorry. I'm sorry that monsters hurt you and made you into this. I suspect strongly that you've suffered horrible child rape yourself and it turned you into a monster unable to feel for the suffering of humanity. Please, get some professional help. You don't have to live in the hell that is your heart, there is help for people like you. You can be whole again, you really can.

"'She shares her ordeal to prevent others from enduring the same.' Really ? Is that a credibale statement? as the women in her primitive third world community are highly unlikely to have access to the internet , nor read English, let alone tune into CNN.

Because you are caught up in anger and resentment, you appear forget that the testimony of survivors is needed to bring awareness to the people who DO have the ability to hear the story and provide assistance to others, so they won't have to endure the same…or you're not capable of comprehending this (it could be a little from column A and a little from column B).

Given that you got the idea of what she's doing wrong, you are also very far off on your proposal of "her agenda," so I'll ignore the fallacy you create. I'm just filing it under stupid things people assume about situations they've never been in.

All this leads to the apparent righteous indignation you use to give yourself permission to hold absolutely no empathy (to the extreme of cruelty) and spout senseless ideas regarding further abuse to her.

I am left to wonder: if her and you were both applying for citizenship of ANY country, which would be the better choice for administrators to admit? Would it be worth losing you to gain her?

TheGreenMan, you claim that because her country is less developed, she cannot possibly desire to share her ordeal with others. Did it not occur to you that *we* are the others with whom she is sharing it? The other women in her country are already living her life.

What can one say except that the heart bleeds every time one comes across this king of report. It is unbelievable how cruel some human beings can be! At the same time, it is so uplifting to know how resilient others can be despite all the abuses and tortures they have gone through. They are the real inspirations.

This woman comes from a land were rape is an everyday event. Stats are that most young african women have been raped once or more times in their lives. Unfortunately it's very common in that continent.

She's playing the media for her own benefit. It's almost as repulsive as her having have been raped.

Sorry PartialObserver, but YouReWayTooDumb and trying to project your own frustrations upon others.
Grow a brain (if that's even possible for the likes of you).

September 21, 2012 at 2:44 am |

ekow

damn!! seriously, are you that stupid or you're just pretending to be? how can someone try to reap benefits off an ordeal like that? regardless of where it occurs, rape is something that can not be trivialized. people like you and such comments continue to spread hate in the world, then you wonder why there's misery and terror?look in the mirror.

September 21, 2012 at 3:18 am |

impartial oberver

I am sorry please ignore my earlier comment, that comment was made when I had not taken my medication. Now I have taken it and I am sane again. I can't believe those words came out of my mouth. Apologies to anybody I might have offended.

September 21, 2012 at 3:29 am |

Mbutty

Impartial observer and TheGreenMan, learn to be human and if that's utterly impossible, I suggest you can try to be a bit human!!!! Sometimes it's not necessary to speak your mind...especially if it's insensitive and stupid!!!! Impartial observer, get your facts straight....don't go talking stuff you know nothing about..... You should both be ashamed of yourselves!

September 21, 2012 at 7:21 am |

pamela

`Partial´ observor, you need to get your facts straight. I dont know where you got your stats from but you need to reseacrh before making such comments!

September 21, 2012 at 7:27 am |

Martha

You are naive. I am sure you are living your brainwashed life with a big smile.

September 21, 2012 at 8:55 pm |

askforameetingpls

Meet up with greengirl if youd like to speak about this eye to eye. Can you see what you type? You insinuate that rape is common so w should not care as if we were talking about people who do not croos the street at the light and crosswalk. So because many women are raped it is not anything to care about and the others should expect it or get used to it? How would you feel if your mother happened through that region? Should she take condoms with her in the hopes that he attacker would put one on? You are sick, and I cannot see how you can be like that.

September 21, 2012 at 9:48 pm |

Kelly Griffith

The government needs to keep an eye on you. Those sound like the comments of rapist. You will be dealt with by GOD! May his wrath come down on you with great vengence.

September 22, 2012 at 4:12 am |

T. E. Lawrence O. A.

observer, you are anything BUT "impartial" – your narrow-minded bias is so strong you fall into the silliest assumption / conclusion / argument I have seen in a long time. It takes an obtuse, weak thinker who ignores facts and forms opinions based on what others TELL you to think (like you are some kind of sheep) to make an argument like that.

Are you suppressing your own Rape Memory? Projecting your own idiocy onto others? Trolling? Either way, it's obvious you have never experienced much of anything in life, except the sound of your own pompous voice...

September 23, 2012 at 12:38 pm |

Irina

Observer, you are f...ed up!

September 24, 2012 at 9:02 pm |

john tako

Sometimes I wonder if we were made by GOD. Humans are so bad. we are worst than animals

It is highly improbabler that "trafickers" would damage their own 'bread and butter' business by , quote "melting plastic onto their (customers) backs'. It would deter more customers for the highly lcrative trade if it were true. It is far more probable that the 'customers' have done it to themselves to dupe the naive liberals such as "CNN Freedom Project" to try emotional blackmail against gullible do-gooders in the 'race Industry' who have a vested interested in promoting all blacks as 'victims' of this or that so as to facilitate the racial transfer of an endless (and unsustainable) inflow of "victims" into the 'western welfare trough'. To improve the quality and credibility of the 'CNN Freedom Project', there badly needs to be some critical analysis introduced as opposed to taking at face value every hard luck story made-up as willing welfare tourists who are so cash-rich they can pay thousands of dollars to their fellow blac "traffickers', near the end of their one-way trail to colonise Europe to 'win' a lifetime of unearned benefits from the racially-raped European indigenous tax slaves..

I want to apologize to whoever I offended by my comments. Ever since Romney's demeaning video has surfaced I have started having panic attacks and I turn anything and everything into a political agenda. I just jump on any opportunity I can grab to pounce on the liberals even though the topic of the article might be about something thousands of miles away and totally unrelated. I think I should stay away from the computer until the results of the election are declared. I should accept that Obama is going to win, Romney is toast. booo hooo, I feel so sorry for myself it's not even funny, but I'll live.

You are really repulsive for even trying to bring US politics into this discussion. Neither candidate has any involvement in this topic, and trying to start mud slinging, or associating your personal ignorance as one representing one candidate or another or one plitical party or another is ridiculous and shameful. No decent human being supports this kind of activity.

Your comments about human trafficking victims are not worthy of my time in response.

Human trafficking is a horrendous problem and it is time we come together to bring it to an end. These victims, male and female could be ANY ONE of us...

September 21, 2012 at 6:20 am |

Kelly Griffith

Don't apologize to us ask forgiveness from your creator and repent

September 22, 2012 at 4:16 am |

Johan S

Do you know anything about the situation other than what you just read and your own fantasy? The Bedouins mistreat some of the refugees to extort cash from them. There isn't an Better Business Bureau or 4 star internet ebay/amazon.com style rating system for Bedouin people smugglers. You never had bad customer service before? Think about how long that Miss Cleo scam thing was on TV in the 1990s. And that was in America with the internet, investigative journalism, TV news services, and better business bureaus. I can understand your frustration in wanting to prevent people from getting in on your hustle.

Who would rape her in Sinai, they've got the most beautiful women in the world in Sina, and there is no marriage problem there., why would traffickers melt plastic on illegal immigrants bodies...I thought the host state has a problem with them, not the traffickers.

this propaganda internet site is attempting to convince the world that israel is a good and helpfull apparatus..it will even help muslims right? sure..and there s "change" coming to the usa after this election too, just don't hold your breathe

Swiss, you are a tool, and a Muslim tool for that matter, this raping, enslaving, torturing anf murdering by Bedouins has been going on for years.

September 21, 2012 at 7:13 am |

Swiss4u

quickie, you re ahead of yourself....the fact that Bedouins practice slavery, just as Jewish US Citizens did for exemple, does not have a thing to do with my comment...take more time thinking, more time reading...slow down quickie...your comment refers to Islam, it is irrelevant to my comment which is political first and foremost.

You see, in a non-zionist theocratic nation-state, church and state are separated. Thats how it is in modern civil societies which are democratic. Of course you would not know that. It s not your fault really. See ya.

September 21, 2012 at 5:24 pm |

Johan S

Maybe so, but who anywhere .. Sina included .. would sleep with a people smuggler voluntarily without some sort of trickery or force?

The Bedouins involved in human trafficking, they have been known to rape Ethiopian and Eritrean women(a black woman doesn't become pregnant with an arab looking baby isn't that proof enough for you). I don't think it matters to them whther they have beautiful wives or not.

ahem ahem....did u say isra-hell is a civilised place, the country which is involved in ethnic cleansing, has occupied land illegally and building settlements by destroying villages!....you live on the aid given by the USA and boast about yourself that how good your country is. ..duh...so lame.. .

September 21, 2012 at 5:12 am |

Swiss4u

what planet do you reside on?

September 21, 2012 at 6:12 am |

temporae

Seriously, have you figured out a way to enter alternate reality; bizarro world or something?

September 21, 2012 at 8:48 pm |

kl

The majority of Ethiopians are CHRISTIANS, the same applies to eritreans, please research before you talk about something you don't know about

thank you for pointing out where the real responsbility for this problem lies. i would guess these issues are not new and have been around for hundreds, if not thousands, of years of bedouin slave trafficking.

Yes, that is why europe and USA is full of african peoples. Nothing to do with slave ships, europeans or globalization.

September 21, 2012 at 8:49 pm |

emahu

this is such horrible incident,actually it is the way of human beings to travel from the worst to better any body cant deny that people were traveleling from East germany to west for the sake of FREEDOM AND BTTER WORKING PLACE, it is such a horrible thing that humans judge for nothing ..i would say please try to help people who re suffered cos YOU ARE NOT PERMANENT INHABITANT OF THE BOUNDRIES THAT YOU ARE CLAIMING

day in and day out we read of terror and humane acts all over the world not just in the so-called primitive 3rd world countries, we are quick to condemn the violence and barbaric incidents, we call the doers and masterminds of those atrocities all kinds of names and frown on their actions, but reading through the comments here, i wonder how different we are from the so called terrorist and dictators that we condemn daily. there're comments here suggesting such selfish and heartlessness, all some people care about are their personal welfare with no regard whatsoever for what happens elsewere, incase you don't know, nobody is more human than another, nobody deserves a better life than anybody else does, and maybe just maybe, your comfort that you enjoy came at the expense of someone's misery.

Is that really happening in my country? Where's the Egyptian police? Where's the Egyptian government? I cannot believe that report. Why people have to suffer everywhere in the world? When will we have a safe world???

Yes, They are muslims, however I am not ..!!! but not all Muslims are Bad and not all are good. Egypt has no power over Sinai by the aggrement in Camp david 1977. Unfurtunatly the lady was looking for butter life, she found fox and attached her , he was an hungry animal..

September 21, 2012 at 5:36 pm |

Younghyun Kim

We human beings must never be biased towards their same human beings' precious values of itself, but our time's evildoers are always against the same innate value of their same human being. So, "our" and their international society caused and also, had been being caused a lot of flagrant violences or atrocties against our precious global women and cute childs, which was well-known as the worst's violcences and the vandalism of man perpetrated by our precious world women and childs. This weak and unworthly world innocent has no choice but to shed bitter tears and shame on itself because he himself can't be of helpful to save and make those all a happy life in their lifetime. But this shameful and humble world worldling wants to communicate a plain message to those all, who are in extremely peril, "like" there is a will, there is a way and there is this era's severe laws to protect those all from being suffered from our time's countless number of world perpetraitors or criminals, and above all, you all must enable each's itself to overcome and triumph over its same worst's pains and difficult situations. Hope you all are always healthy and happy and Good luck!

2013. 09. 21. in Seoul, South Korea from Younghyun Kim(a weak world innocent or worldling)

Now does that make you a better person? I can understand you and I privately hope that he will get whatever is coming for him. But differently to you I did not act on it by posting that disgusting crap. I do hope that he get's all the mental help he needs because that guy is crazy or has some serious mental health issues. Fortunately, because your reaction is human I do not believe you have mental issues but you need to learn not to become like those, full of hate and cruelty.

September 21, 2012 at 8:54 pm |

Mike

Now how would you feel if someone wrote something like that about you or your people on CNN. Never heard "Do unto others..."

It beats my imagination that such barbaric and dehumanising acts still takes place in contemporary times all in the name of making money.Are there no decent ways of legitimately earning a living?African governments should live up to their responsibilities in other to stop their citizens from falling into the hands of these dare-devils that call themselves human beings.

You get shivers when you read such stories and wonder How deep can people sink. And then you come across comments such as @TheGreenMan and @Impartial Oberver and realise that if such sane educated people in better off countries have such a mindset, then it is not difficult to fanthom such monsters ruling this earth.

jimmy rustler, and many others. Since we started attacking muslims and arabs it's become an open season for racists to propagate their hate and dehumanization of non-whites, poor and those of us who are normal. The forums all over internet are full of those "free speech fighters".

CNN, you ignore non "Wet industry" illegals flooded here to diminish American wages. You ignore the continued outsourcing often at a loss paid up for by the taxpayer. You ignore massive open shipments of illegal Mary Jane and Meth escorted by the Mexican military with US border guards standing down so they don't end up like the two they imprisoned.

I say we should be able to have some "Fun" without an overseas trip. If we are going to be .... by the Globalist Bankers, let us ... some other people also!

Coz if I'm going to compete with Mexicans diminishing my salary in a market with jobs going overseas... Well, frankly to survive we need a TONG and why not work with a real one? Help them establish in exchange for fun and profit?

What fun to be in a room with two or three Oriental ladies. And being fed exotic foods and other substances while playing with them. And to watch a defiant one being ... disciplined. All this can be yours without an overseas trip if you support your local human trafficker!

And then at your office there's an awful lady, but desirable to your Tong Friends. A woman promoted there because she's a woman. They just hired her while they made you feel like a criminal being twice as qualified for your lesser job.

And she's like as Prof Norman said – a Modern woman who seeks to destroy men. Treats you like dirt. Makes you stay late at night making her coffee. Slip in something the Dr. Fu Manchu prepared for you. Then your Tong brothers wait outside to ship her overseas to a new ... career...

And hand her letter of resignation to the top boss which recommends you as her replacement!

WOW THAT GREENMAN GUY...YOU THINK WITH YOUR STUPID COMMENT, YOU ARE THE HAPPIEST PERSON IN THE WORLD.. I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE DEEP PERSONAL ISSUES TO WORK ON, I HOPE THAT One can only hope that you and your family DO have to endure SUCH PAIN...A...HOLE

yeah right...and the imperialist policies which destroyed and are destroying the rebuilding of Africa have not a thing to do with this..its the Bedouins! The Bedouins are evil and the usa and israel are good and democratic !

pinch me, do literate, educated human beings believe this stuff really? what a world !

when israel says that it can only handle 60 000 immigrants,thats just a way of undermining themselves,israel can properly handle 60 500 so called illegal immigrants.therefore,israel should go to sinai and save those eritreans by arresting those in the egyptian side of the border who have raped them.

This is the kind of thing the UN should be doing and that our forces should be tackling. I sincerely hope Egypt and others there will clean up the Sinai.

It is interesting that Israel and the USA are so much alike. Think of all of the nations in North Africa, the Middle East and the Mediterranean and yet it is tiny Israel that the poor and oppressed see as a beacon of hope.

What is happening to Eritreans in Egypt (hell) to get to Israel (Heaven) is very saddening and infuriating.
No one expected this to happen Eritreans after receiving independence from Ethiopia. Most of them run out of the country!!
Moreover, Arab barbarians abusing Eritreans in the Sinai and no one helps them.
Eritrea will be empty if the immigration rate increases. Perhaps the last person to stay in Eritrea will be the dictator of the country.
Eritreans need to know how to handle themselves in their country just like the Ethiopians. There is hope and results in Ethiopia.

We should also consider that perhaps these bedouin traffickers do not see the violation ss morally wrong. Muhammad, the prophet of Islam taught that muslim men should not have extra marital relations apart from 'those whom their right hands posess'. Muhammad demonstrated this several times in islamic hadith. example, he slept with a woman on the night of the same day her city was captured by Mohammad's army and all the males were executed. I'm just saying MAYBE 'some' of these more islamic communities have that kind of view when it come to women.

That's an excellent point. It's difficult to hold someone with different religious teaching and a different set of values to our same standard. Perhaps to them, the act is not appalling as they think they are doing something right. Or, maybe they are not, but either way, it's an excellent point.

Just an observant comment from the article- Ransoms sometimes topping $60,000????
Anyone in that part of the world with access to $60,000 doesn't need to be "traficked" across the desert. These writers would be better off if they didn't sensationalize a story, when the story itself, is sensational enough.

if a visa officer learned of the money behind such ransoms, it may well mitigate against an a"pplicant's case. but, in fact, the truth is seldom really understood because lies and embellishments often serve as "evidence."

I just find it hard to believe anyone crossing these deserts in this way, has access to that kind of money. A Mexican with $100,000 doesn't hire a common coyote to get him to the U.S.

September 21, 2012 at 10:25 am |

Consequence

Reports of such money would certainly raise the eyebrows of a visa officer who would wonder about the whole story.

September 21, 2012 at 10:28 am |

old dragon

I don't know what's more horrifying – what these people have been through or the complete lack of common decency and human compassion shone by some of the posters here who have never in their lives lived in abject fear and poverty. I don't care what your political and/or religious beliefs are, if you think this is acceptable, even justifiable, behavior towards another human being, there is something seriously wrong with you.

As a former visa officer, i know first hand of the difficulties in trying to vet the stories of individual applicants, particularly when the visa officer has only a few minutes to do so. it is easy to be swayed by lies or not to see the truth when it is told. one thing is for sure, america's reputation and the reputation of some other, usually more western, nations draws would be immigrants like fly paper with all manner of stories and deceptions to make their case. i am not saying this is so in this case, but we must be careful not to be taken in by every journalist's story or every american's appeal for help. too many "helpful" americans are also the butt of exploitation and too quick to jump on a would be immigrant's side. the visa officer's job is made more difficult – when it is their job to ferret out authentic cases from the thousands of bad ones and to make a determination which follows our immigration laws.

just to clarify, i think any normal human being should should be convicted by conscience when another human being is begging and crying not to be assaulted through something as wicked as rape; no matter what their prophet taught and did.

I totally agree, but the visa officer cannot take every case at face value. i am repulsed by what really happens to people on this planet, but i am also repulsed by the lengths and stories people will develop in order to obtain a visa or to gain entry into the U.S. we need to read such stories with interest, but we also must be careful not to be drawn in to a cause that may not be all that it is reported to be.

Rev 3:8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

Rev 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

Rev 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Rev 3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

Bedouin trafficker leaders & gang are crazy people they are evil. they have no sense in humans being. poor raped victim who did not doing anything wrong. these crazy people who doesn't want to work in order to get the money out people's pocket through the RANDOM or kill the rapist victim or their babies – that is not normal. The world will needs to be end in some day! – there will be no more wicked people on this earth.

You people who say that Israel is too tough on these foreigners are racist anti semites. Israel has the right to protect it's culture, we don't want Africans! You racist anti semites! God gave this land and to Jewish people not Africans and not Arabs. We kick Arabs out and we soon will kick Africans out.

God didn't give you any land. You took it by force with weapons of mass destruction after the British and the US and France decided it needed you to secure their military bases in the region>>>>>>>>>.for ressources such as oil. European jews are as indegenous to Palestine as I am to the Americas.

Furthermore, you should understand that the word "semite" comes from the languages, "semitic languages", spoken in AFRICA such as Geez, Amharic, etc etc etc...so, however ignorant and frustrated, the very word which you use to describe yourself is AFRICAN, which is the very thing you depsise in fact.

I doubt that Afrikans. I suspect the jews will be around a lot longer than globalization. They survived the Greeks and the Romans and had their land and capital destroyed in the year 66... that's pretty amazing that they've made it this far, no?

You know that 10% of egyptians are christian right? Heard of LRA? Google it. Whomever they are, whatever religion they were born into, I'm sure of one thing, they are not followers of Judaism, Christianity or Islam.

You didn't read the article, or simply didn't understand it. There are beudins helping these people, they even have a center for these refugees. At least they aren't imprisoning them as they do in Israel. Also are every american Timothy McVeight? Are every norwegian a Breivik? Are every german a Hitler? Are every israeli a Levy/Stern/Kahan/Haganah (massacres)?

The Bedouins who live along red sea coast stretching from Eritrea, Sudan, Egypt and Sinai. They have vast network and they use their tribe network to smuggle these victims across each country. When they reach the final destination , the Sinai, along Israel border. They keep them in a kind of camp where they torture, rape the women and harvest their organs until they get a huge ransom from the families or relatives of the victim who live abroad or inside Eritrea. But there are niece Bedouins who reside in the Sinai, and help those victims who escape from their captors but it is very hard for the victims to escape from that dessert and reach somewhere.

September 21, 2012 at 10:05 pm |

Alex Pavón Valencia

It is unbelievable that there are these kind of people...we are human beings everybody has feelings, everyone can feel pain, love. That situation is unbearable. When I look at baby´s picture I feel like killing these monsters called traffickers...but i will become a monster too...

I am sorry for my English but i want say thank you for this reportage to (CCN) good job.As example i'm one of the victims of this horrible accident .there is one of my family Lady 17 year's old asked me to pay for her $35'000 but unfortunetly i can't help her because of my situation that is so sad . Eritrean from Swiss

The reason for the huge eritrean refugee problem is the totalitarian regime in Eritrea headed by dictator Isaias Afwerki who has turned Eritrea into police state and has enslaved Eritreans into endless military service with no pay. Eritrea is the North Korea of Africa.

You know that 10% of egyptians are christian right? Heard of LRA? Google it. Whomever they are, whatever religion they were born into, I'm sure of one thing, they are not followers of Judaism, Christianity or Islam. You are just a hate spreading ignorant bigot.

Islam is sending these people fleeing Islam is murdering them and Islam is treating them as trash do I need to say more wake Up America Judgment is coming.
maybe Westbourough Baptist Prophets were right after all

September 23, 2012 at 6:38 pm |

Frank

Muslims did this to other muslims. Of course, I'm sure most arabs would agree its the jews in Israel who are the root cause of muslims raping other muslims. That's how their minds work.

You know that 10% of egyptians are christian right? Heard of LRA? Google it. Whomever they are, whatever religion they were born into, I'm sure of one thing, they are not followers of Judaism, Christianity or Islam. You are just a hate spreading ignorant bigot. I guess muslim bashing is all the rave nowadays.

I think you made a mistake the victims are not Muslims.Most of them (99%) are Christians from Eritrea. Of course the kidnappers are Beduoins , who are nomad who live along the red sea coast including Israel Sudan, Egypt and Eritrea. The Bedouins have a vast network through their tribe and used this network to transfer the victims from Eritrea to Sudan , from Sudan to Egypt then to Siania. The Bedouins sell these souls from one point to another through their network. The final destination is Siani , just the border with Israel. When the victims reach the Siani along the border , their hostage request huge some of money from the families of the victims . If the relatives of the victims failed to pay the ransom the kidnappers punish the victims , sell their body parts to Egyptian and Israel doctors, and rape the women. The main reason these vicitms leave their home country is due to the dictatorship in Eritrea who held them hostage for years in pretext war with Ethiopia.

The United States can cure this problem in a hurry!! We will send Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Joseph Lowery, Ambassador Andrew Young, Mayor Maynard Jackson, Martin Luther King III, Rep. John Lewis, Rep. Cynthia McKinney and Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. to all scream RACIST together in eight part harmony. That along with telling the human trafficers how much they owe their former "clients". In addition, President Obama will make each former hostage an American Citizen, give them a free house, free food, unemployment for life, a pimped out big shiny new foreign car with 24" spinner wheels, voting rights and of course a lifetime membership in the Democratic Party!!

People will do anything for money!! I will avoid the Egyptian desert, I like and need both my kidney's. They are harvesting organs along with other things, these people need to be stopped. I would say that Israel and Egypt should work together to stop this but Israel shoots them if they are caught reaching the fence. Considering there are organs needed everywhere I'm sure a lot more are involved then people think.

The men only get to see few women uncovered(their sisters and wives). It is rare for them to see a strange women who is not covered head to toe with a burqa. That's why they probably can't control themselves when they see vulnerable uncovered foreign women.

September 29, 2012 at 3:15 am |

Coriolana

Correction: human traffickers are not human and deserve to be shot on sight.

The Sinai smugglers are Muslim. Bedouins are Muslims. If the Muslim world violently protests a movie, I can't wait to see the world-wide protests over fellow Muslims raping refugees and burning babies. Muslims are going to take to the streets over this, right?

You are right dmz! When in hell will the Muslim community stand up and show worldwide rage over the disrespect of women and children...or are they truly prepared to do that? The rest of the world should do the same.

You didn't read the article, or simply didn't understand it, right? There are beudins helping these people, they even have a center for these refugees. At least they aren't imprisoning them as they do in Israel. Also are every american Timothy McVeight? Are every norwegian a Breivik? Are every german a Hitler? Are every israeli a Levy/Stern/Kahan/Haganah (massacres)?

I am weakened and in tears over these horrific incidences. This could happen anywhere...including so-called "First World" societies....and it does happen. The stigma involved with being raped, in the places where these women featured in the article live, offer a challenge to their communities to dissolve their cultural fear of offering support and consolation for victims of rape. If a person is tortured/raped, and in fear of their lives, this is not the time to admonish them. I just don't understand that thinking. There should be absolute outrage and when there are forces of people around who will diminish a person to his/her most vulnerable state by raping them. What is it with gangs, or thugs that need to rape to prove anything?

I think we should different between the victims, the traffickers, and the compassionate who helped them, the topic emphasis about those who shelter those victims but they do not focus on the culprit of the problem for these victims. The reason why these victims to cross from Eritrea( a tiny country in the East Africa) is they are governed by a dictator who held the citizens hostage. These victims inorder to escape from the dictator were forced to cross to Sudan, and pay a huge ransom to go through the dessert to Egypt, but the first traffickers sold these victims to their cousin bedouin in Egpyt and these use these hostage as a ransom for huge amount of money so that they can set free or drop them across the border to Israel. When the vicitms failed to pay , they punished the male, and do rape the women and also kill the hostages for their organs. These kidnappers also work with some doctors in Egpyt and Israel to harvest their organs and sell their parts to the highest bidders. Most of the hostages are christians from Eritrea and they are not Muslims.

Halliburton and DynCorp were suspected of profiting in human trafficking in Bosnia in the 1990's and again in Afghanistan and Iraq...Donald Rumsfeld was answering questions in Congressional Hearing in 2005 and 2006 about it...Good Old Mr Mili Minderbinder himself Dick Cheney always looking to make a profit...

Wait, so most of the african refugees are Christian, and the bedouin smugglers are Muslim? But protesters against the anti-Mohammed movie keep saying Muslims don't insult other religions, so why are people insulting their religion. Isn't raping women and burning babies because they aren't Muslim a type of religious disrespect?

Great! More lies and propaganda brought to you by the Illuminati.
ww3 is coming, i'm sure of it, you sheep will believe anything then brainwash you with and go fight their wars.
i bet all these people are actors and those wounds are photoshopped.
heck even parts of it is true, than it still DOESN'T matter because these "victims" have obviously deserved it since God didn't save them, they must have been even more cruel than the traffickers to deserve this separation from God's mercy.
I'm just using logic and the scriptures. I hope that makes sense.

Oh, they love to spill their nasty and meaness every chance they get. They love to see people taking offense as normal human beings would. CNN maybe even pays them so that they can keep bringing on Jerry Springer style comment boards.

I If you want to get top stories, there are other places where this does not go on to the depths it does here. If you really want to have intelligent discussions ref politics, try real clear politics dot com. People there actually are educated on the facts for both parties.

IIt is tuff, but if everyone would totally ignore these trolls as if they are not here, then their comments would just soon scroll away.

Where is the compassion for humanity? These people are suffering, there are many suffering around the world! Doesnt matter where they came from, look what they endured! Why not feel a bit of sympathy and acknowledge them as survivors! To get through a tramatic experience most need to talk! What do you negative people do to make things better in the country you live in than put down others?! If you have a problem with it, start something to help the situation instead of bagging on someone. Get off your high horse!

I will say this. "There are no countries like the US" I say that because most countries will not allow people to become citizens, no matter the reason. The US is the only country that has a heart for people and will allow them to seek refuge. I don't agree with "TheGreenMan" but I do understand why he says "My country is already full" I also agree its enough of the handouts!!! I am sick of paying my hard earned money to allow people to get a free handout!! I am sorry for the ordeal "you" went thru in your own country but 9 times out of 10 we are already giving money, people are over there fighting for your freedom and we are running commercials for US Citizens to pay for your children. Some of these countries could care less about the US and burn our flag at the drop of a dime.. I for one am sick of it!!

It is sad to hear about people abused horribly like being raped. I think what we have are people obsessed or desperate of immigrating, many of them running away from poverty, or dreaming of a much better life in advanced countries. Most of these immigrants are actually going the way of illegal immigration. "Traffickers" in this case refers to individuals or organzations who help facillitate the illegal immigrants through human immgtration hi-ways.

I think these desperate people have been preyed upon by gangs who pretentend to traffick them. Traffickers normally work only for fee, many of them actually are in tour business for a front.

In Israel – where I live – we accept refugees. We see them being shot on the border by Egyptians and it is a hard sight. It's not easy – we are a small country with an heavy past so we HAVE to be sensitive to refugees. The problem is that we need to make the difference between those poor guys and simple migrants who try to infiltrate in Israel to work. We cannot absorb all those migrants – they take poor people's jobs (including Palestinians and Israeli Arabs) and scare our population (not because they are Black – because their values are often different). Israel is a democracy, developed and rather rich country, geographically interesting for those migrants and we have a real problem that we shouldn't try solving alone – the UN after all is also here for that, not only to criticize Israel. Please remember that refugees and migrants are different and that we deal with this issue everyday (as if we didn't have enough things to deal with in this country).

It's the same in the Philippines.. So many foolish women working the bars, streets, cam sites etc. Sad. Exploitation there is crazy and the government seems to turn a blind eye to it. Angeles City is a nasty place..

Isn't it incredible how an article about women being trafficked in the Sinai has become a discussion about Israel and its politics instead of staying focused on these women? Israel is not the cause of the human trafficking and let's not think for a single second that if its politics were any different it could change things at the source. Drop the politics and hatred toward Israel and focus on the victims–these people.

This is the true face of Islam – a hateful, hurtful philosophy that brutalizes women, disfigures women through infabulation, rapes women with complete impunity. Peasceful Muslims, Barack? Is that the type of people our so-called leader wants to apologize to? Islam is simply a vicious philosophy of evil.

That baby Cecilia is such an innocent baby. I wish I could have been there when this happened with an AK47 and a few grenades. I would've gutted out all those traffickers and roasted it. There is a famous line.... "All it takes for the whole world to become evil is that the good people do nothing"

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Jews and Muslims need not be hostile to one another they both need loving care. Building of Synagogues in Iran and Egypt will go a long way on the golden road to trust and friendship. A Fatwa issued by the Grand Mufti demanding defensive borders for Israel will be sweet music to Jewish ears. Any view that Muslims are cruel will be gone, Islam will then be seen as a kind and loving religion. Millions of Infidels will accept Allah and his Prophet and join the call to prayer.

These abused people are the original Jews (some of the lost tribes of Israel) scattered in Egypt, Ethiopia and Libya and Sudan with real ROOTS in Isreal. They once lived peacefully with the arabs and others.

The case in sinnai is just a fraction of what is happening to those young people from East African countries including my country Ethiopia. These young people are risking their lives not because the situation in destination countries is better than that of their home countries. Comparing the situation in Ethiopia, which is one of the fastest growing countries in the world and much stable than most countries in Africa, and Yemen, which has been troubled by the waves of revolution and was unstable in 2012. Despite all these contradictions, young boys and girls from Ethiopia were in constant move to Yemen and then to Saudi Arabia and other Middle East Countries. What is the driving force behind them ? Are they making the decision rationally? Based on facts? I don't think so as they are moving from stability to chaos and unrest, from hope to hopelessness, from freedom to slavery and exploitation, and so on.
In my opinion, these young people are making the decision to migrate deceived by the false promises and tricks of the smugglers who are making huge amount of profits out of their sufferings.
Your efforts to end modern day slavery, I found very timely and promising.

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